Laremy Legel, Mar 12, 2010
A Prophet (Un Prophete), the French nominee for Best Foreign film, is quite good. It’s good in three languages too, subtitled all the way, though I’m hoping that doesn’t scare you off. Occasionally you have got to head outside your native tongue for a worthy cinematic experience. ...
Eric D. Snider, Mar 12, 2010
Based on a 2007 novel by Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer concerns a former British prime minister named Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who definitely is not a slightly fictionalized version of Tony Blair, so do not even think that. Lang is in the process of writing ...
Eric D. Snider, Mar 12, 2010
The premise of Our Family Wedding makes it sound awful: Two young people are engaged to be married, but their dads hate each other. There will be wackiness and sabotage and childish behavior! Ha ha! But you gotta hand it to them. They took this trite ...
When you think “best war motion picture of the 80s”, one film instantly springs to mind. I was dumbfounded, then, after compiling the list of Top 10 War Flicks of the Eighties, that Platoon was nowhere to be found upon it. The Criticker community — always full of surprises! ...
Amanda Mae Meyncke, Mar 10, 2010
In the last five years or so, we have entered into a full-blown renaissance of one of the most hallowed and time-honored genres in filmmaking: the Geek Gets the Girl. Over the past few years Judd Apatow and Michael Cera have reminded America once again that ...
This is what we like to see!! The top five new releases on DVD progressively get less popular as they get worse. That is, the films with the ideal scores are also the ones which most people saw, and the two top films were even nominated for Oscars. ...
Eric D. Snider, Mar 09, 2010
As a title, Rebel Without a Cause tells you almost everything you need to know. With absolutely no context, it conjures the image of a young person — it’s always a young person, is not it? — rebelling against authority. And with the context that comes ...
Film.com Staff, Mar 10, 2010
Corey Haim, famous for his role in the 1987 film Lost Boys, was pronounced dead this morning. According to CNN:
Haim was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, where he was pronounced dead at about 3:30 a.m. PT Wednesday (6:30 a.m. ET), police Sgt. ...
By now you all know that Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker were the huge winners at the Oscars, and there were no real surprises in any of the major acting categories.
So let’s take a look at some of the lesser known victors of the night!
Best Documentary – ...
Laremy Legel, Mar 07, 2010
Check back on Sunday, March 7 for Film.com’s Oscar Live Blog!
Here are my 2010 Oscar Predictions.
Note: Just an FYI, my calls on Best Makeup, Best Score, and Best Foreign Film are the least likely to happen as Star Trek, Up, and The Secret in Their Eyes are ...